William Michael Forbes
All thoughts generates energy (emotions) that matches the nature and intention of the idea behind it. wmf
The intensity of an emotional charge diminishes according to the attention that it taken from its starting point.
In biofeedback experiments they have proven that emotional states produce physical responses that even the person feeling them sometimes won’t notice. You might see a friend or co-worker nervously tapping a pen, or somebody anxiously walking around...some people bite their nails too much because there are unconscious emotions causing physical actions and many of the psychological issues facing many people are caused by these unconscious emotions...which I call unconscious energies in motion. What we now know about emotional energy is that it doesn’t just affect our bodies...it also affects others around us, as the energy of emotion leaves ours system in concentric spheres in strikes the people in proximity to us yet only affects those that the emotional charge has a resonance with. So let us say that John Smith is angry because someone cut him off on the way to work, he arrives at work feeling angry about the event and anybody at work that has a similar feeling will pick up John Smith’s irritation as the emotional vibration from John is picked up by anyone with similar emotions...these individuals may not even know that this has occurred but may find themselves feeling irritated for no apparent reason as to the cause, but if you can understand this principle you will understand the value and meaning of today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Today’s activity is about creating positive vibes wherever you are and I have suggested variations of this exercise as once it is practiced enough and the effects of the practice becomes apparent to you, you will become a creator and manifestor of happiness in your world...so let’s get to it. Whether you are at work or at home, walking down the street or just driving along I want you to spend thirty seconds thinking about or remembering the most loving and positive feelings you can recall and IMAGINE them filling your body completely for about thirty seconds or until you feel the feelings fully and completely. Then IMAGINE those feelings radiating out from your body in sequential spheres...like the rings leaving the place where a pebble has hit the water, for another thirty seconds...this can be done with your eyes opened or closed as long as you aren’t operating any equipment and of course driving your car. Do this activity for one minute every half-hour for seven hours and always notice how you feel afterwards and also watch how people’s behaviour around you changes especially during and just after the exercise and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
An investment returned
William Michael Forbes
That place in the middle of your face is for more than food... wmf
A Well Known Fact: Simple actions from our bodies cause actions in our brains.
You’re on the highway behind the wheel of your car, you’re on the bus or subway amongst a scrum of people, you’re walking through the park or down the street and you may be passing people quietly or politely saying “Hi.” Yet have you ever wondered what would happen if there was just a teensy-weensy bit more communication than the typical en-passant fodder? Or the typical questions about the weather? When I meet people I like to spice up the meeting of minds and souls with unusual first meeting activities like smiles and questions such as “What’s your big dream in life?” or “if you could do anything you wanted what would that be?”...questions that requires a head to poke out of its shell and look around at something or someone new. Which brings us to today lesson on, How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
When you do today’s activity, take no more than three minutes per hour for five hours to do the activity. Here are a few ground rules for those of you reading this, just getting out of your shells.
Rule 1. Pick people that are in safe and familiar environments...unless you already feel safe outside your environmental comfort zones.
Rule 2. Remember to greet anyone you do this activity with, with eye contact and a sincere smile. (A smile is an easy investment to get a return on)
Rule 3. Do not expect a certain result or try to get the person to be a certain way...let the results naturally unfold from the conversation.
Rule 4. If the person is reluctant to participate...let it go and move politely on to someone else.
Rule 5. If things become interesting take more than three minutes per person per hour but only if you want to.
With the above ground rules in mind remember the purpose of this activity is to expand and strengthen your existing social skills. Now find one person per hour that you are going to talk with and ask them some thinking questions, ask if they have a few moments and explain to them that you’re doing this activity and if they are okay with you asking them some personal questions...which I suggest you carefully consider ahead of time. As I said before the purpose is to stretch your social boundaries and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
That place in the middle of your face is for more than food... wmf
A Well Known Fact: Simple actions from our bodies cause actions in our brains.
You’re on the highway behind the wheel of your car, you’re on the bus or subway amongst a scrum of people, you’re walking through the park or down the street and you may be passing people quietly or politely saying “Hi.” Yet have you ever wondered what would happen if there was just a teensy-weensy bit more communication than the typical en-passant fodder? Or the typical questions about the weather? When I meet people I like to spice up the meeting of minds and souls with unusual first meeting activities like smiles and questions such as “What’s your big dream in life?” or “if you could do anything you wanted what would that be?”...questions that requires a head to poke out of its shell and look around at something or someone new. Which brings us to today lesson on, How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
When you do today’s activity, take no more than three minutes per hour for five hours to do the activity. Here are a few ground rules for those of you reading this, just getting out of your shells.
Rule 1. Pick people that are in safe and familiar environments...unless you already feel safe outside your environmental comfort zones.
Rule 2. Remember to greet anyone you do this activity with, with eye contact and a sincere smile. (A smile is an easy investment to get a return on)
Rule 3. Do not expect a certain result or try to get the person to be a certain way...let the results naturally unfold from the conversation.
Rule 4. If the person is reluctant to participate...let it go and move politely on to someone else.
Rule 5. If things become interesting take more than three minutes per person per hour but only if you want to.
With the above ground rules in mind remember the purpose of this activity is to expand and strengthen your existing social skills. Now find one person per hour that you are going to talk with and ask them some thinking questions, ask if they have a few moments and explain to them that you’re doing this activity and if they are okay with you asking them some personal questions...which I suggest you carefully consider ahead of time. As I said before the purpose is to stretch your social boundaries and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The world is at your fingertips
William Michael Forbes
Love is an energy of the soul. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Emotion is like a raw ore it can be mined and refined to become something ultimately good.
You are wherever you are as you are reading this and you can affect any place in the worlds that you can move your awareness to....in fact we do this all the time whenever we think about people, places and events...a portion of our energy goes out from us to the point of space and time that we think of and can have an influence there, provided that there is a receiver to respond to the attention. For example...if I were to ask you to become aware of your nose right now, suddenly you find you are aware of your nose and the space that it occupies. If I asked you to become aware of the feelings in your feet, suddenly you are aware of your feet. In fact you have just moved your awareness to two different points of time and space and that movement in your awareness was felt by the cells in your nose and feet, which responded by giving you the knowledge of what they felt at the time your awareness was placed there. This brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Today’s activity is fun and can be done for one minute periods as often as you like throughout the day and there are just few ideas to consider before you start. First make sure that when you do this you will be undisturbed for each minute. Secondly, take three slow deep breaths before starting and let the tension leave your body as you exhale and third choose to project only positive, constructive thoughts and feeling out from where you are...I always choose to send out love and goodness to people and places, wherever they are. Now here we go...pick a person place or time you wish to affect...release the tension from your body and let your mind become as quiet as you can...you can even think “Shhhhhhhhh” to your mind and it will quiet even more. Now think of someone that you love and put your attention on them...just like your awareness moving to your nose and feet, a part of your awareness will go to them immediately...as soon as you think about them. Now think good kind and loving thoughts about them...wish them well and then turn your attention to someplace that you’d like to see peace in, say the Middle East...again a portion of your awareness goes to that point of time and space immediately and you may even sense or feel the actual physical space, now imagine a feeling of peace filling that space and encompassing everything and everyone there now and then bring your awareness back to where you are at this moment and continue about your business. Every hour take just one minute to repeat this process for whomever or wherever you you wish to effect positively and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Love is an energy of the soul. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Emotion is like a raw ore it can be mined and refined to become something ultimately good.
You are wherever you are as you are reading this and you can affect any place in the worlds that you can move your awareness to....in fact we do this all the time whenever we think about people, places and events...a portion of our energy goes out from us to the point of space and time that we think of and can have an influence there, provided that there is a receiver to respond to the attention. For example...if I were to ask you to become aware of your nose right now, suddenly you find you are aware of your nose and the space that it occupies. If I asked you to become aware of the feelings in your feet, suddenly you are aware of your feet. In fact you have just moved your awareness to two different points of time and space and that movement in your awareness was felt by the cells in your nose and feet, which responded by giving you the knowledge of what they felt at the time your awareness was placed there. This brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Today’s activity is fun and can be done for one minute periods as often as you like throughout the day and there are just few ideas to consider before you start. First make sure that when you do this you will be undisturbed for each minute. Secondly, take three slow deep breaths before starting and let the tension leave your body as you exhale and third choose to project only positive, constructive thoughts and feeling out from where you are...I always choose to send out love and goodness to people and places, wherever they are. Now here we go...pick a person place or time you wish to affect...release the tension from your body and let your mind become as quiet as you can...you can even think “Shhhhhhhhh” to your mind and it will quiet even more. Now think of someone that you love and put your attention on them...just like your awareness moving to your nose and feet, a part of your awareness will go to them immediately...as soon as you think about them. Now think good kind and loving thoughts about them...wish them well and then turn your attention to someplace that you’d like to see peace in, say the Middle East...again a portion of your awareness goes to that point of time and space immediately and you may even sense or feel the actual physical space, now imagine a feeling of peace filling that space and encompassing everything and everyone there now and then bring your awareness back to where you are at this moment and continue about your business. Every hour take just one minute to repeat this process for whomever or wherever you you wish to effect positively and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I’m going to lose it.
William Michael Forbes
Don’t stop fear in its tracks...just don’t follow its tracks. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Emotional energy effects matter as immediately as walking.
When an animal is faced with a new situation, even something like an unfamiliar sound, they respond in one of two ways, preparation for fight or flight. Our human bodies are pretty much like an animal’s body in that it has instinctual consciousness built right into it. This instinctual consciousness works in the exact same manner as the animals with the exception that we can override our physical instincts with a process of consciousness called reason. Unfortunately only a small percentage of people in the world have developed their reason sufficiently to make intelligent choices, which is the primary cause of war, greed, personal conflict, relationship challenges, drug addiction, alcoholism and a host of other problems plaguing humanity at a time when we have such great potential to be a love based species. What can we do to change this? We can learn to think outside of how we’ve been taught to think.
Today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is an opportunity to begin learning to face some of our basic fears within ourselves...which is where our behaviour comes from ultimately. On this note, pick one area of your life where you have a fear i.e. you may be afraid of being in debt, you may be afraid of being alone for the rest of your life, you may be afraid you won’t get the promotion, you may be afraid of failing or doing a presentation or going to an audition. Pick one of your fears for one minute each hour, and feel the fear...watch it as if you are watching someone else being afraid...notice how your body is responding to the fear...and breathe slowly in and fill your lungs letting out all the tension as you exhale...surround the fear with your awareness and imagine that it is a child you can give love and comfort to for about thirty continuous seconds...and after thirty seconds, notice any changes in the fear...and for the remainder of the minute just gently think or say to the part that was afraid...”Thank you, I Love You.” ‘Thank you I Love You.” Then notice how you feel afterwards and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Don’t stop fear in its tracks...just don’t follow its tracks. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Emotional energy effects matter as immediately as walking.
When an animal is faced with a new situation, even something like an unfamiliar sound, they respond in one of two ways, preparation for fight or flight. Our human bodies are pretty much like an animal’s body in that it has instinctual consciousness built right into it. This instinctual consciousness works in the exact same manner as the animals with the exception that we can override our physical instincts with a process of consciousness called reason. Unfortunately only a small percentage of people in the world have developed their reason sufficiently to make intelligent choices, which is the primary cause of war, greed, personal conflict, relationship challenges, drug addiction, alcoholism and a host of other problems plaguing humanity at a time when we have such great potential to be a love based species. What can we do to change this? We can learn to think outside of how we’ve been taught to think.
Today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is an opportunity to begin learning to face some of our basic fears within ourselves...which is where our behaviour comes from ultimately. On this note, pick one area of your life where you have a fear i.e. you may be afraid of being in debt, you may be afraid of being alone for the rest of your life, you may be afraid you won’t get the promotion, you may be afraid of failing or doing a presentation or going to an audition. Pick one of your fears for one minute each hour, and feel the fear...watch it as if you are watching someone else being afraid...notice how your body is responding to the fear...and breathe slowly in and fill your lungs letting out all the tension as you exhale...surround the fear with your awareness and imagine that it is a child you can give love and comfort to for about thirty continuous seconds...and after thirty seconds, notice any changes in the fear...and for the remainder of the minute just gently think or say to the part that was afraid...”Thank you, I Love You.” ‘Thank you I Love You.” Then notice how you feel afterwards and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A fearless day
William Michael Forbes
Bravery is a concept that knows not either race or religion wmf
A Well Known Fact: Attention is the wheel that steers our lives in different directions, while emotion is the power to make it whatsoever we imagine.
What if love was the only emotion that we had to live with? What if there was no fear at all? Is it possible that we might still grow and develop without the opposing states of fear and Love? What does it mean to be fearless and how would our lives be with only love? I’ve given this some deep consideration and have come to the conclusion that opposing emotional states are the legs that our soul needs to move forward through life just as the opposing movements of our legs creates the controlled fall forward that we call walking or running. Virtually every physical activity of our lives requires a force and a counterforce in order to maintain muscle strength and physical activity…so too does our body require opposing states of wellness in order for us to discover and understand the a process for our physical body to be healthy.
I love kayaking…I love canoeing I love driving my car, I like feeling good inside my mind, I love inspiring and empowering others to grow and learn and all of these activities require an ongoing perception of what I call the love and fear factors. Love being the factor that increases my awareness of life and fear being the factor that indicates where my life may cease to exist. These polarities of energy and consciousness were also considered to be the life and death instinct of the Freudian psychology yet in another sense of reality they are different aspects of emotional energy as they are utilized to create our experiences of life. When we learn to work with our emotions (energy in motion) causes and effects are set into motion first in our mind…then in our body and finally in our environment. The reverse of this is also true as energy is both the cause and effect of itself…an event occurs in the environment, influences our body and causes changes in our mental energy field. This process is always going both ways in either a positive way or a negative way…it cannot be neutral and produce change and experience for us to be aware of.
There is a point in our experience where we become aware of the relationship between our thoughts, our emotions and the environment and this awareness facilitates a development our ability to reason and choose in ways that improve and enhance our lives or we do not learn to develop an awareness of the relationship between our thoughts, emotions and events and therefore life appears to be a random series of sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes fun, sometimes sad experiences that we can only hope will turn out more good than bad. This brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less and it is to promote a more conscious awareness of the relationship you have to what is going on around you at any given point of space and time…and that once a stronger awareness is cultivated consciously, our imagination and emotion will create more effectively and immediately the results that will sustain a healthy forward movement in our lives.
This activity will require as much as three minutes over a five hour period. Every hour for three minutes I want you to take about one minute to assess the mood of the environment you are in wherever you are. Then take as much as three minutes to imagine that the space you are in is filled with people smiling, laughing and feeling good…pretend you can hear people laughing, make eye contact with people that you feel comfortable doing so with and smile…recall feelings of happy times in your life and let those feeling radiate out from your body into the space around you. The purpose here is to give you an awareness of the fact that what we think and feel does affect us and the world. Remember to carefully notice any events that correspond to the feelings you emanate as you do the activity and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Bravery is a concept that knows not either race or religion wmf
A Well Known Fact: Attention is the wheel that steers our lives in different directions, while emotion is the power to make it whatsoever we imagine.
What if love was the only emotion that we had to live with? What if there was no fear at all? Is it possible that we might still grow and develop without the opposing states of fear and Love? What does it mean to be fearless and how would our lives be with only love? I’ve given this some deep consideration and have come to the conclusion that opposing emotional states are the legs that our soul needs to move forward through life just as the opposing movements of our legs creates the controlled fall forward that we call walking or running. Virtually every physical activity of our lives requires a force and a counterforce in order to maintain muscle strength and physical activity…so too does our body require opposing states of wellness in order for us to discover and understand the a process for our physical body to be healthy.
I love kayaking…I love canoeing I love driving my car, I like feeling good inside my mind, I love inspiring and empowering others to grow and learn and all of these activities require an ongoing perception of what I call the love and fear factors. Love being the factor that increases my awareness of life and fear being the factor that indicates where my life may cease to exist. These polarities of energy and consciousness were also considered to be the life and death instinct of the Freudian psychology yet in another sense of reality they are different aspects of emotional energy as they are utilized to create our experiences of life. When we learn to work with our emotions (energy in motion) causes and effects are set into motion first in our mind…then in our body and finally in our environment. The reverse of this is also true as energy is both the cause and effect of itself…an event occurs in the environment, influences our body and causes changes in our mental energy field. This process is always going both ways in either a positive way or a negative way…it cannot be neutral and produce change and experience for us to be aware of.
There is a point in our experience where we become aware of the relationship between our thoughts, our emotions and the environment and this awareness facilitates a development our ability to reason and choose in ways that improve and enhance our lives or we do not learn to develop an awareness of the relationship between our thoughts, emotions and events and therefore life appears to be a random series of sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes fun, sometimes sad experiences that we can only hope will turn out more good than bad. This brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less and it is to promote a more conscious awareness of the relationship you have to what is going on around you at any given point of space and time…and that once a stronger awareness is cultivated consciously, our imagination and emotion will create more effectively and immediately the results that will sustain a healthy forward movement in our lives.
This activity will require as much as three minutes over a five hour period. Every hour for three minutes I want you to take about one minute to assess the mood of the environment you are in wherever you are. Then take as much as three minutes to imagine that the space you are in is filled with people smiling, laughing and feeling good…pretend you can hear people laughing, make eye contact with people that you feel comfortable doing so with and smile…recall feelings of happy times in your life and let those feeling radiate out from your body into the space around you. The purpose here is to give you an awareness of the fact that what we think and feel does affect us and the world. Remember to carefully notice any events that correspond to the feelings you emanate as you do the activity and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Is your love speaking?
William Michael Forbes
We’ve been given the choice to be in love or fear and it’s how we are choosing that is determining the events of our world…. wmf
Choice is a spiritual muscle that needs continuous exercise in order to work properly all the time.
Is your love speaking is an idea that I want to share with you today, it is an idea that has several angles to it. The first and perhaps the most important side; How do we speak internally to ourselves? By speaking to ourselves I mean they way in which our thoughts and emotions are utilized in the privacy of our internal thinking and imaginings about our world, the people, events and places in it. How are your thoughts in your mind at any given time? How do they sound and feel top you? I believe that the quality of our thoughts determines, to a large extent, the nature and quality of our expression to the rest of the world around us.
The second side to Is your love speaking is how we communicate directly with others at any given point of time throughout the day, at work, at play and in any social setting where we need to interact with others…what is the quality of your voice when you are speaking to others? What tone of voice do you use? Are you communicating positively or negatively…does your communication bring the energy up or down? And the finally how are others communicating with you? What is their voice tone like? Is it pleasing, grating, happy, sad, bitter? How do you feel when people talk a certain way to you.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is an opportunity for you to bedcome a little more aware of how you communicate with yourself and others and It will only take two to four minutes per hour. When you have the opportunity take a minute to notice what your internal voice sounds like while you are going about your day. Consider; Does the thoughts you’re using inside your head sound friendly, annoyed, happy or sad?...and what is the underlying feeling in relation to your internal voice? Once you’ve identified this, try changing the internal tone of your voice, the way your voice sounds inside your mind…make it a deliberately happy tone, or a deliberately excited tone or even a calm and relaxed tone…then notice how the underlying feeling changes. Next…take an opportunity to notice what happens in your conversations with other. How are they speaking to you? What is the tone of voice they are speaking to you in and what thoughts does their tone of voice make your mind think about and how do those thoughts feel? What tone of voice are you responding to them in? Now try changing the tone of your voice with them and notices how they respond to you and how that feels. The purpose of today’s activity is to give you some experience in becoming aware of the effects our voices can have upon ourselves and other and to also begin learning how to consciously direct our thoughts and emotional energies where we want them to take us and…
Have a Great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
We’ve been given the choice to be in love or fear and it’s how we are choosing that is determining the events of our world…. wmf
Choice is a spiritual muscle that needs continuous exercise in order to work properly all the time.
Is your love speaking is an idea that I want to share with you today, it is an idea that has several angles to it. The first and perhaps the most important side; How do we speak internally to ourselves? By speaking to ourselves I mean they way in which our thoughts and emotions are utilized in the privacy of our internal thinking and imaginings about our world, the people, events and places in it. How are your thoughts in your mind at any given time? How do they sound and feel top you? I believe that the quality of our thoughts determines, to a large extent, the nature and quality of our expression to the rest of the world around us.
The second side to Is your love speaking is how we communicate directly with others at any given point of time throughout the day, at work, at play and in any social setting where we need to interact with others…what is the quality of your voice when you are speaking to others? What tone of voice do you use? Are you communicating positively or negatively…does your communication bring the energy up or down? And the finally how are others communicating with you? What is their voice tone like? Is it pleasing, grating, happy, sad, bitter? How do you feel when people talk a certain way to you.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is an opportunity for you to bedcome a little more aware of how you communicate with yourself and others and It will only take two to four minutes per hour. When you have the opportunity take a minute to notice what your internal voice sounds like while you are going about your day. Consider; Does the thoughts you’re using inside your head sound friendly, annoyed, happy or sad?...and what is the underlying feeling in relation to your internal voice? Once you’ve identified this, try changing the internal tone of your voice, the way your voice sounds inside your mind…make it a deliberately happy tone, or a deliberately excited tone or even a calm and relaxed tone…then notice how the underlying feeling changes. Next…take an opportunity to notice what happens in your conversations with other. How are they speaking to you? What is the tone of voice they are speaking to you in and what thoughts does their tone of voice make your mind think about and how do those thoughts feel? What tone of voice are you responding to them in? Now try changing the tone of your voice with them and notices how they respond to you and how that feels. The purpose of today’s activity is to give you some experience in becoming aware of the effects our voices can have upon ourselves and other and to also begin learning how to consciously direct our thoughts and emotional energies where we want them to take us and…
Have a Great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, February 19, 2010
The truth is healing.
William Michael Forbes
In a single moment I realized I could just choose to be happy. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Most conflicts have a starting point that almost everyone forgets or didn’t notice and when the start is recognized, then understood, it makes us happy to be together.
Needs…every living organism has them…from the single celled amoeba to the complex mega celled human body which is comprised of as many as fifty billion cells!!
Living organism, at their most basic level, need food, oxygen, water and the ability to reproduce. Humans, because of our ability to think and reason, have a set of needs that goes beyond the basics of food shelter and clothing…although it can be argued that someone might need a thirtieth pair of shoes in the closet. Our unique ability to think, thereby generating different emotional charges creates a psychological need that need neither food nor water can satisfy…it is a need to feel GOOD about oneself and without a psychological sense of feeling good…humans can behave in not good ways…strangely enough to try feel good!
Today’s blog is about truth being healing…because when we feel NATURALLY good - and by naturally we mean that both physical and psychological needs and wants are met in healthy, positive and constructive ways - we tend to do good things, think good thoughts and live in ways that well…are good. Truth is a conception of right and wrong a way of thinking, feeling and acting that makes life better for all people concerned…Truth is able to dispel deception, denial, ignorance, neglect and greed as long as the truth is a focus of any human endeavour. When truth is ignored…war, greed, pain, suffering, starvation and deprivation assume temporary authority over our lives until the deception consumes itself usually in its own destructiveness…then truth rises from the ashes…fully undamaged and recreates a healthy expression of itself in a new awareness and social order…which brings us to today’s lesson of How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less…Take no more than 3 minutes each hour for nine hours to do this activity.
Consider three areas of your life where you feel that you are suffering…it could have something to do with a relationship, it could have to do with money, it might be a job that you are doing that is unsatisfying…it could be a drug or alcohol problem you are having, it might even be that you think you aren’t beautiful or smart enough, it may be a physical challenge you are currently facing…just pick three areas and write them down on a piece of paper in clear, legible words. Now beside or below what you’ve written, write the following question:
If this area of my life were the way I really wanted it to be what would I be thinking, feeling and doing right now?
Now write four answers for each area you’ve identified and spend thirty seconds thinking, feeling…and if possible acting as if your solution had already occurred and notice what you feel afterwards and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
In a single moment I realized I could just choose to be happy. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Most conflicts have a starting point that almost everyone forgets or didn’t notice and when the start is recognized, then understood, it makes us happy to be together.
Needs…every living organism has them…from the single celled amoeba to the complex mega celled human body which is comprised of as many as fifty billion cells!!
Living organism, at their most basic level, need food, oxygen, water and the ability to reproduce. Humans, because of our ability to think and reason, have a set of needs that goes beyond the basics of food shelter and clothing…although it can be argued that someone might need a thirtieth pair of shoes in the closet. Our unique ability to think, thereby generating different emotional charges creates a psychological need that need neither food nor water can satisfy…it is a need to feel GOOD about oneself and without a psychological sense of feeling good…humans can behave in not good ways…strangely enough to try feel good!
Today’s blog is about truth being healing…because when we feel NATURALLY good - and by naturally we mean that both physical and psychological needs and wants are met in healthy, positive and constructive ways - we tend to do good things, think good thoughts and live in ways that well…are good. Truth is a conception of right and wrong a way of thinking, feeling and acting that makes life better for all people concerned…Truth is able to dispel deception, denial, ignorance, neglect and greed as long as the truth is a focus of any human endeavour. When truth is ignored…war, greed, pain, suffering, starvation and deprivation assume temporary authority over our lives until the deception consumes itself usually in its own destructiveness…then truth rises from the ashes…fully undamaged and recreates a healthy expression of itself in a new awareness and social order…which brings us to today’s lesson of How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less…Take no more than 3 minutes each hour for nine hours to do this activity.
Consider three areas of your life where you feel that you are suffering…it could have something to do with a relationship, it could have to do with money, it might be a job that you are doing that is unsatisfying…it could be a drug or alcohol problem you are having, it might even be that you think you aren’t beautiful or smart enough, it may be a physical challenge you are currently facing…just pick three areas and write them down on a piece of paper in clear, legible words. Now beside or below what you’ve written, write the following question:
If this area of my life were the way I really wanted it to be what would I be thinking, feeling and doing right now?
Now write four answers for each area you’ve identified and spend thirty seconds thinking, feeling…and if possible acting as if your solution had already occurred and notice what you feel afterwards and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Body Talk.
William Michael Forbes
It’s alive…it’s all alive!. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Your body responds to both conscious and unconscious stimuli,,
It hears, it smells, it touches, it tastes, and it feels everything!! Your body is a symphony of harmonized consciousness that loves being, so long as it is taken proper care of. If you aren’t taking proper care of your body then you know because it is experiencing, pain, discomfort or it is ill. Today…if you are willing…you are going to have a conversation with your body and particular parts of your body. You see your body hears your thoughts like people hear your spoken words…and the nature and quality of those thoughts can affect your body easily…in both positive and negative ways…today it will only be in positive ways…which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes each hour…find a place where you will be undisturbed and put your body into a comfortable position…(avoid doing this activity driving or operating any type of machinery.) when your body is comfortable, take three slow deep breaths and release all of the tension from your body as you exhale…the tension will leave automatically as you exhale anyway. After the third breath sense, feel or visualize…whichever is easiest for you, every cell of your body…from the marrow of your bones to the surface of the skin…feel the space that it all occupies. Now think or speak to your body in a voice that sounds sincere…like you really mean these words….
“Thank you for being a part of my life” notice how your body responds to that thought…and repeat it again “Thank you for being a part of my life.”
Sense your nerves, your organs and your glands…feel your muscles, tendons and ligaments…and now think to your body…”I’m taking this time to let you know how much I appreciate everything you’ve done for me…thank you, thank you, thank you.” Again notice and feel how your body responds to these thought, think “thank you!” even if you don’t understand them..remember to think or speak these thoughts in a tone of voice that sounds like you mean, even make up some of your own constructive thoughts and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
It’s alive…it’s all alive!. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Your body responds to both conscious and unconscious stimuli,,
It hears, it smells, it touches, it tastes, and it feels everything!! Your body is a symphony of harmonized consciousness that loves being, so long as it is taken proper care of. If you aren’t taking proper care of your body then you know because it is experiencing, pain, discomfort or it is ill. Today…if you are willing…you are going to have a conversation with your body and particular parts of your body. You see your body hears your thoughts like people hear your spoken words…and the nature and quality of those thoughts can affect your body easily…in both positive and negative ways…today it will only be in positive ways…which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes each hour…find a place where you will be undisturbed and put your body into a comfortable position…(avoid doing this activity driving or operating any type of machinery.) when your body is comfortable, take three slow deep breaths and release all of the tension from your body as you exhale…the tension will leave automatically as you exhale anyway. After the third breath sense, feel or visualize…whichever is easiest for you, every cell of your body…from the marrow of your bones to the surface of the skin…feel the space that it all occupies. Now think or speak to your body in a voice that sounds sincere…like you really mean these words….
“Thank you for being a part of my life” notice how your body responds to that thought…and repeat it again “Thank you for being a part of my life.”
Sense your nerves, your organs and your glands…feel your muscles, tendons and ligaments…and now think to your body…”I’m taking this time to let you know how much I appreciate everything you’ve done for me…thank you, thank you, thank you.” Again notice and feel how your body responds to these thought, think “thank you!” even if you don’t understand them..remember to think or speak these thoughts in a tone of voice that sounds like you mean, even make up some of your own constructive thoughts and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Focus, Focus and more Focus
William Michael Forbes
My actions in the world always go towards the place in my mind that I’m looking. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Happiness is always a choice…not always an easy choice…but always a choice.
Q: Can you be happy no matter what?
What if;
Your husband, wife or girlfriend has left you. Someone you know has disappointed you, you were passed over for the promotion, your energy is low and your sales are down, you drank too much the night before, you feel lonely, you’re unemployed, you’re behind in the bills…nothing seems to be working…can you still be happy?
A: Yes…you can…but you have to choose to be and the choice is only the beginning…the choice has to be supported with actions that move you into the direction of where you believe your happiness is…even if you’re not sure of where it is!
The only guarantee that you have in your life is that you can choose your thoughts, thus creating emotional resources (negative or positive, depending on the type of thoughts you choose) and the emotional resources that you have at any given moment will create actions and physiological changes that can diminish or enhance your desired results and behaviour. How do you learn to choose your thoughts? Especially when strong, seemingly overwhelming negative emotions may be in the forefront of your awareness…and here is my secret, which is today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Anytime during today when you are aware that you are in strong negative emotional energies…feel them and breathe into them and watch how they change as you exhale. Continue feeling them and breathing into them…feel your body relax as you exhale…feel the emotions change as you release the tension from your body. Now choose a thought that you’d like to use to generate positive energies in your body and mind…try this one;
“Something incredibly good is unfolding in my life…even if I don’t see it at this moment.” Repeat the thought in a meaningful way and notice what feelings begin to emerge from the thought. You can even try this thought;
“Every day in every way, my life is getting better and better and better!” or just make up your own positive thought…and say it or think it like you REALLY, REALLY mean it and feel what comes from within you as a response to the new thought. Remember that a new idea has to be practiced again and again to become a pattern in your mind, your body, your life and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
My actions in the world always go towards the place in my mind that I’m looking. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Happiness is always a choice…not always an easy choice…but always a choice.
Q: Can you be happy no matter what?
What if;
Your husband, wife or girlfriend has left you. Someone you know has disappointed you, you were passed over for the promotion, your energy is low and your sales are down, you drank too much the night before, you feel lonely, you’re unemployed, you’re behind in the bills…nothing seems to be working…can you still be happy?
A: Yes…you can…but you have to choose to be and the choice is only the beginning…the choice has to be supported with actions that move you into the direction of where you believe your happiness is…even if you’re not sure of where it is!
The only guarantee that you have in your life is that you can choose your thoughts, thus creating emotional resources (negative or positive, depending on the type of thoughts you choose) and the emotional resources that you have at any given moment will create actions and physiological changes that can diminish or enhance your desired results and behaviour. How do you learn to choose your thoughts? Especially when strong, seemingly overwhelming negative emotions may be in the forefront of your awareness…and here is my secret, which is today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Anytime during today when you are aware that you are in strong negative emotional energies…feel them and breathe into them and watch how they change as you exhale. Continue feeling them and breathing into them…feel your body relax as you exhale…feel the emotions change as you release the tension from your body. Now choose a thought that you’d like to use to generate positive energies in your body and mind…try this one;
“Something incredibly good is unfolding in my life…even if I don’t see it at this moment.” Repeat the thought in a meaningful way and notice what feelings begin to emerge from the thought. You can even try this thought;
“Every day in every way, my life is getting better and better and better!” or just make up your own positive thought…and say it or think it like you REALLY, REALLY mean it and feel what comes from within you as a response to the new thought. Remember that a new idea has to be practiced again and again to become a pattern in your mind, your body, your life and…
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
God morning to you.
William Michael Forbes
The creator has put a part of itself into its creation; in essence they are one in the same and in no way different. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Every molecule of your body responds to any event within the range of your awareness...(I believe that we humans have this same relationship with God.)
I awaken almost a full hour before the alarm clock goes off...I think to myself; “Something inside me wants to be awake...I wonder what it is.”
I turn my attention to the thoughts and emotions that are flowing through my head, thoughts like; It’s only five o’clock; It’s so quiet, It feels good to be alive, I wonder what I’ll write this morning, I’ve got money stuff to consider, what kind of day do I want? What am I doing today? How can I increase traffic to my blog? Life is precious, I’m so blessed, I have good people in my world...the thoughts are almost random except that they fit into different areas of my life that are relevant to where I am in my life at this time. And then an interesting thought occurs to me...What if God, the almighty creator, is actually in every one of us?...hearing through our ears, seeing through our eyes, moving as we move through the day...just observing us without judgement.
What if it were true that when meet someone, anyone, we were to consider the possibility that God has placed a small part of himself into everyone of us just to keep an I on things...kind of like we are the fish in a fishbowl and our senses are the instruments that bring information back the source of life watching within our bodies and minds...in order to know what to do at any point of space and time? What if, in fact, every active molecule of the physical world was active because God has put a portion of himself in everything? Such an arrangement of consciousness and energy would then support the concept that Deity is all knowing, all powerful and everywhere present, which would also support the scientific notion that the omnipresent ENERGY also works in a similar fashion... At this point I’m only considering the possibility that this may be true...what can I say other than I’ve got a healthy curiosity. I decide to go a step further and share this idea with everyone that I can...which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Let’s play pretend today. At least once every hour, choose to encounter someone and ask yourself the following question; “If God is in this person listening to me and watching me at this moment, how should I treat them?” Notice when you do this if you find yourself changing body posture with the person from your norm, does your tone of voice change? How do you feel different? Remember to breathe and relax and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The creator has put a part of itself into its creation; in essence they are one in the same and in no way different. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Every molecule of your body responds to any event within the range of your awareness...(I believe that we humans have this same relationship with God.)
I awaken almost a full hour before the alarm clock goes off...I think to myself; “Something inside me wants to be awake...I wonder what it is.”
I turn my attention to the thoughts and emotions that are flowing through my head, thoughts like; It’s only five o’clock; It’s so quiet, It feels good to be alive, I wonder what I’ll write this morning, I’ve got money stuff to consider, what kind of day do I want? What am I doing today? How can I increase traffic to my blog? Life is precious, I’m so blessed, I have good people in my world...the thoughts are almost random except that they fit into different areas of my life that are relevant to where I am in my life at this time. And then an interesting thought occurs to me...What if God, the almighty creator, is actually in every one of us?...hearing through our ears, seeing through our eyes, moving as we move through the day...just observing us without judgement.
What if it were true that when meet someone, anyone, we were to consider the possibility that God has placed a small part of himself into everyone of us just to keep an I on things...kind of like we are the fish in a fishbowl and our senses are the instruments that bring information back the source of life watching within our bodies and minds...in order to know what to do at any point of space and time? What if, in fact, every active molecule of the physical world was active because God has put a portion of himself in everything? Such an arrangement of consciousness and energy would then support the concept that Deity is all knowing, all powerful and everywhere present, which would also support the scientific notion that the omnipresent ENERGY also works in a similar fashion... At this point I’m only considering the possibility that this may be true...what can I say other than I’ve got a healthy curiosity. I decide to go a step further and share this idea with everyone that I can...which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Let’s play pretend today. At least once every hour, choose to encounter someone and ask yourself the following question; “If God is in this person listening to me and watching me at this moment, how should I treat them?” Notice when you do this if you find yourself changing body posture with the person from your norm, does your tone of voice change? How do you feel different? Remember to breathe and relax and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, February 15, 2010
We grow ourselves!
William Michael Forbes
With an awareness of the relationship between cause and effect, we have choice wmf
A Well Known Fact: Without some form of relative opposition progressive change cannot occur.
I’m having one of my rare moments when I’m feeling a little unsure of myself...I see where I am in my life...and I also recognize where I want to be in my life and the gap between the two seems like a vast canyon that wants to swallow me up...I am also the observer of the two juxtaposed perceptions that look like they are opposites. Yet I know one is the seed...the other the flower...one requires nurturing...and with patience and perseverance, the other one naturally grows. Some people in music, film, television, politics, social activism can sometimes seem to appear quite suddenly on the radar of life, similar to what we witnessed with the Obama phenomena...and yet few people ever recognize the years of hard work and the personal and professional struggles that went into creating the observable result...that appears to make it look so easy.
Each and every day creators of their destiny toil towards daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals...their goals are the support lines that prevent them from failing and falling back into the past from which they came and empower them to climb to ever higher peaks of experience and performance. To anyone reading this, goals are essential for getting yourself from point A to point B...without a vision of where you are going...you will have nowhere to go to...which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, which will only require two minutes from every waking hour you have today. Make sure you have a pen and paper close by when doing this activity and be prepared to jot down what comes to you from the activity.
Take a few deep breaths and release the tension from your body...take two more deep breaths and let your mind become quieter for a few minutes. Now ask yourself the following questions and write at least two answers down for each question...and notice how you feel after writing each answer;
1. Where would I like to be right now that would make me feel amazing?
2. How much money would I need to feel that good all the time?
3. What can I think of right now that could begin to make this happen?
The answers to these questions are uniquely yours and reflect your unconscious minds ideas, both acquired and created, about how you may live your life or not...and how you may do it or not. Now read over your questions and your responses, how do they make you feel? If the feeling is positive...imagine that you can breathe that feeling into your entire body with one single breath and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
With an awareness of the relationship between cause and effect, we have choice wmf
A Well Known Fact: Without some form of relative opposition progressive change cannot occur.
I’m having one of my rare moments when I’m feeling a little unsure of myself...I see where I am in my life...and I also recognize where I want to be in my life and the gap between the two seems like a vast canyon that wants to swallow me up...I am also the observer of the two juxtaposed perceptions that look like they are opposites. Yet I know one is the seed...the other the flower...one requires nurturing...and with patience and perseverance, the other one naturally grows. Some people in music, film, television, politics, social activism can sometimes seem to appear quite suddenly on the radar of life, similar to what we witnessed with the Obama phenomena...and yet few people ever recognize the years of hard work and the personal and professional struggles that went into creating the observable result...that appears to make it look so easy.
Each and every day creators of their destiny toil towards daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals...their goals are the support lines that prevent them from failing and falling back into the past from which they came and empower them to climb to ever higher peaks of experience and performance. To anyone reading this, goals are essential for getting yourself from point A to point B...without a vision of where you are going...you will have nowhere to go to...which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, which will only require two minutes from every waking hour you have today. Make sure you have a pen and paper close by when doing this activity and be prepared to jot down what comes to you from the activity.
Take a few deep breaths and release the tension from your body...take two more deep breaths and let your mind become quieter for a few minutes. Now ask yourself the following questions and write at least two answers down for each question...and notice how you feel after writing each answer;
1. Where would I like to be right now that would make me feel amazing?
2. How much money would I need to feel that good all the time?
3. What can I think of right now that could begin to make this happen?
The answers to these questions are uniquely yours and reflect your unconscious minds ideas, both acquired and created, about how you may live your life or not...and how you may do it or not. Now read over your questions and your responses, how do they make you feel? If the feeling is positive...imagine that you can breathe that feeling into your entire body with one single breath and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Hurried Joy!
William Michael Forbes
If you’re going to hurry, lose the worry. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Hurry worry creates more problems than it solves.
Alright I admit there are days when I have a penchant for wanting to sneak an extra wink or two…happy winks of course…and occasionally I get a few minutes behind the schedule I’ve set for myself… and at one time that would mean I’d have to meet up with the two emotional siblings called “Hurry and Worry.” Hurry is okay all on its own…but when Hurry is allowed to meet with Worry…I think most of you know what I’m talking about already. When Hurry and Worry meet up in our mind or the minds of others they are easy to recognize…they cause us to forget ourselves, others and social courtesy…they take possession of our bodies and make us put our pants and t-shirts on backwards and incline us to say and do all kinds of un-neighbourly things, yell, scream, cut people off, get cut off, get yelled at, butt into lines, create speeding tickets, cause us to goof up the interview, reduce our concentration and just simply make us waste time and miss opportunities…in fact Hurry and Worry are almost like drinking alcohol…without the need for any hair of the dog.
When I filed for a divorce from Hurry and Worry, it wasn’t a pretty picture, at first they fought with me saying; You need us to get there faster…you need us to be in control of everything and everyone, you need us to feel empowered! But I had all the evidence I needed to win the case…the memories of toilet paper stuck on my shoe…the time that nice officer wished me a good day, Sir! And the time I left my wallet at home in time for another officer to wish me another good day. At the time of the divorce I was very clear with those two…it’s over!
Which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less….Alright you’ve slept in…or you missed the bus, or someone you were counting on is behind which puts you behind…Worry you talks first and says; “look at the time!” you raise your wrist or look at a clock and see the minutes being eaten by time’s pac-man…then Hurry steps in and says; We better move it along faster…what can we do to go faster?” to which Worry usually responds…”Oh my God…we are so late! And now Worry wants you to go faster…and faster…AND NOW SIMPLY SAY STOP!!
And take a slow deep breath, let your muscles relax. Gently say to your mind…Shhhhhhhh….it’s going to be okay. And for today, as often as you find yourself wanting to hurry…take a slow deep breath and let the physical tension go…then in your mind gently make the sound…”Shhhhhhhhh.” Then make a conscious choice that everything will work out for everyone involved. And finally continue doing what you felt an urge to hurry with a smile on your face…make sure you smile at the people around you…notice how the smile makes you feel and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
If you’re going to hurry, lose the worry. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Hurry worry creates more problems than it solves.
Alright I admit there are days when I have a penchant for wanting to sneak an extra wink or two…happy winks of course…and occasionally I get a few minutes behind the schedule I’ve set for myself… and at one time that would mean I’d have to meet up with the two emotional siblings called “Hurry and Worry.” Hurry is okay all on its own…but when Hurry is allowed to meet with Worry…I think most of you know what I’m talking about already. When Hurry and Worry meet up in our mind or the minds of others they are easy to recognize…they cause us to forget ourselves, others and social courtesy…they take possession of our bodies and make us put our pants and t-shirts on backwards and incline us to say and do all kinds of un-neighbourly things, yell, scream, cut people off, get cut off, get yelled at, butt into lines, create speeding tickets, cause us to goof up the interview, reduce our concentration and just simply make us waste time and miss opportunities…in fact Hurry and Worry are almost like drinking alcohol…without the need for any hair of the dog.
When I filed for a divorce from Hurry and Worry, it wasn’t a pretty picture, at first they fought with me saying; You need us to get there faster…you need us to be in control of everything and everyone, you need us to feel empowered! But I had all the evidence I needed to win the case…the memories of toilet paper stuck on my shoe…the time that nice officer wished me a good day, Sir! And the time I left my wallet at home in time for another officer to wish me another good day. At the time of the divorce I was very clear with those two…it’s over!
Which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less….Alright you’ve slept in…or you missed the bus, or someone you were counting on is behind which puts you behind…Worry you talks first and says; “look at the time!” you raise your wrist or look at a clock and see the minutes being eaten by time’s pac-man…then Hurry steps in and says; We better move it along faster…what can we do to go faster?” to which Worry usually responds…”Oh my God…we are so late! And now Worry wants you to go faster…and faster…AND NOW SIMPLY SAY STOP!!
And take a slow deep breath, let your muscles relax. Gently say to your mind…Shhhhhhhh….it’s going to be okay. And for today, as often as you find yourself wanting to hurry…take a slow deep breath and let the physical tension go…then in your mind gently make the sound…”Shhhhhhhhh.” Then make a conscious choice that everything will work out for everyone involved. And finally continue doing what you felt an urge to hurry with a smile on your face…make sure you smile at the people around you…notice how the smile makes you feel and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
You can!
William Michael Forbes
Success is best measured by the way in which we enjoy life and how we deal with its setbacks wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Up and down only apply when there is gravity.
Sometimes I am amazed at how easy it is to maintain a habit once it is established as a daily action in my life...how I hold my fork, stir my coffee, how I sit in my chair or walk down the street. I’ve been learning to look at all my habits, including the ones that I’ve labelled as bad, as choices that I made often enough that I just do them without thinking...like driving my car or taking a shower or the tone of voice that I speak to people in and what I tend to talk about with others when I greet them. Lately I’ve begun to challenge some of my habits by doing things a little differently...which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
The world of people that is in your life see you in a particular way that is supported by how you are thinking, feeling and acting at any given time...whether you are with them or not (thought travels through any substance known to man at greater than the speed of light.) If you knew that what you were thinking about another was affecting them as much as what you are physically doing, would you consider thinking a little differently?
Today’s activity is really simple and will prove to be fun if engaged in a spirit of fun and sincerity. For one minute each hour today, think of a person that you know (and who knows you) that you care about, it can be a husband, a wife, a boyfriend or girl friend, a friend, a brother or sister even an employer...it must be someone that you know. You may pick the same person for the one minute each hour or pick a different person for each hour...Take a deep breath before you start then for that one minute I want you to only think the most amazing thoughts about that person that you can muster, create or remember...for one full minute allow only positive, constructive thoughts about that person, whoever they are. At the end of the minute...notice what is different about how you are feeling after the minute...then continue about what you were doing. You may spend more than a minute per the person you choose to focus on...but no more than two per hour and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Success is best measured by the way in which we enjoy life and how we deal with its setbacks wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Up and down only apply when there is gravity.
Sometimes I am amazed at how easy it is to maintain a habit once it is established as a daily action in my life...how I hold my fork, stir my coffee, how I sit in my chair or walk down the street. I’ve been learning to look at all my habits, including the ones that I’ve labelled as bad, as choices that I made often enough that I just do them without thinking...like driving my car or taking a shower or the tone of voice that I speak to people in and what I tend to talk about with others when I greet them. Lately I’ve begun to challenge some of my habits by doing things a little differently...which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
The world of people that is in your life see you in a particular way that is supported by how you are thinking, feeling and acting at any given time...whether you are with them or not (thought travels through any substance known to man at greater than the speed of light.) If you knew that what you were thinking about another was affecting them as much as what you are physically doing, would you consider thinking a little differently?
Today’s activity is really simple and will prove to be fun if engaged in a spirit of fun and sincerity. For one minute each hour today, think of a person that you know (and who knows you) that you care about, it can be a husband, a wife, a boyfriend or girl friend, a friend, a brother or sister even an employer...it must be someone that you know. You may pick the same person for the one minute each hour or pick a different person for each hour...Take a deep breath before you start then for that one minute I want you to only think the most amazing thoughts about that person that you can muster, create or remember...for one full minute allow only positive, constructive thoughts about that person, whoever they are. At the end of the minute...notice what is different about how you are feeling after the minute...then continue about what you were doing. You may spend more than a minute per the person you choose to focus on...but no more than two per hour and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
What’s it worth to you?
William Michael Forbes
Happiness is a measurable result that consists of one part attention, one part, perseverance and one part action and one part choice and not necessarily in that order. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Happiness will kill a depression...
I’m booked on a commercial this morning and needed to rise at 5:45am...however I decided to spend a few minutes looking at my gal sleeping peacefully then hopped out of bed, into the shower, into my clothes, gathered my wardrobe, my laptop and headed down to the car. I drive out to the street and onto the expressway, the traffic is light and I arrive at the studio location with thirteen minutes to spare. To this point I have spoken only to my partner...a whispered “good morning, have a great day and your awesome!”
My mind is clear, quiet and calm and the song, “Joy to the world!” is somewhere in the back of my head. I remember the years when I would wake up, thinking...”Oh no...Not again!” then pull the covers over my head again. Or I’d get to the bathroom mirror and look at my face and think...”You again?” I use to hate getting up in the mornings...I use to resist life and avoid the effects of my causes and about thirty years ago...I began to reconstruct my mind.
If you want to take an amazing trip, a change from a negative self view to a positive self view is an awesome journey. A step onto that path and you will never want to look back again...just like when we feel really good about something we want to stick with the good feeling. As you learn to consistently retrain your mind to think in ways that generate positive emotions, ideas and actions, which can support what it is that we want to be and do, even difficulties start to have a new feeling to them as opportunities. If you are currently burdened with bills, drug and alcohol troubles, relationship challenges, not doing what you really want to do...then this journey may be the ticket you want to buy. Ultimately it is a journey into being and doing love as a daily experience and expression...which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
During the day, check in with yourself every fifteen minutes and for one minute just observe what the thoughts are in your mind and the actions through your body that are occurring. And ask yourself this question; “Do these thoughts and actions improve my life at this moment? If your answer is yes, carry on and have a blast! If the thoughts are not supportive of what you want then what would be a good, positive substitute for them. Once you’ve done this...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Happiness is a measurable result that consists of one part attention, one part, perseverance and one part action and one part choice and not necessarily in that order. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Happiness will kill a depression...
I’m booked on a commercial this morning and needed to rise at 5:45am...however I decided to spend a few minutes looking at my gal sleeping peacefully then hopped out of bed, into the shower, into my clothes, gathered my wardrobe, my laptop and headed down to the car. I drive out to the street and onto the expressway, the traffic is light and I arrive at the studio location with thirteen minutes to spare. To this point I have spoken only to my partner...a whispered “good morning, have a great day and your awesome!”
My mind is clear, quiet and calm and the song, “Joy to the world!” is somewhere in the back of my head. I remember the years when I would wake up, thinking...”Oh no...Not again!” then pull the covers over my head again. Or I’d get to the bathroom mirror and look at my face and think...”You again?” I use to hate getting up in the mornings...I use to resist life and avoid the effects of my causes and about thirty years ago...I began to reconstruct my mind.
If you want to take an amazing trip, a change from a negative self view to a positive self view is an awesome journey. A step onto that path and you will never want to look back again...just like when we feel really good about something we want to stick with the good feeling. As you learn to consistently retrain your mind to think in ways that generate positive emotions, ideas and actions, which can support what it is that we want to be and do, even difficulties start to have a new feeling to them as opportunities. If you are currently burdened with bills, drug and alcohol troubles, relationship challenges, not doing what you really want to do...then this journey may be the ticket you want to buy. Ultimately it is a journey into being and doing love as a daily experience and expression...which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
During the day, check in with yourself every fifteen minutes and for one minute just observe what the thoughts are in your mind and the actions through your body that are occurring. And ask yourself this question; “Do these thoughts and actions improve my life at this moment? If your answer is yes, carry on and have a blast! If the thoughts are not supportive of what you want then what would be a good, positive substitute for them. Once you’ve done this...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
It’s easy when it’s easy
William Michael Forbes
The true measure of a human soul can also come through during the times when things are their most difficult. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Western civilization stands not because of its military or economic might, as some would have you believe, but because of the creative tenacity of its people...which is still a little unfettered by greed, control and power. However if it is fully enslaved to taxation and bad governing principles...it is only through this impediment of spontaneous creativity (or massive geophysical changes) that western society...and the global economy will fall again.
The bathroom sinks aren’t hooked up, the kitchen sink can only be used in a limited way, floors are being partly refinished, all food has to be prepared in a one foot by one foot space on the kitchen table...all the proper places for things has changed repeatedly...the stove in unplugged and as we finish one job everything moves to another cluttered space. We chose to work with materials that require up to seventy two hours to dry, cure and otherwise be ready for normal use again. It’s a renovation which includes sanding, cutting, painting, sealing, washing, washing and more washing, Vacuuming and vacuuming, sweeping and sweeping...sleeping on the couch...sleeping in the bedroom...back on the couch...trying to remember where the keys got moved to...oh and where did I put my USB phone charger? (again) and dear...”where did the clean laundry get put?” I have remember the stories my sister told me, my wonderful sister Michelle who fully renovated everyone of the six homes she’s owned and lived in, yep the stories of rocky turmoil...and I decided after the stories from her fourth home, that it would be different for me...and I can assure you it is.
Like choosing a positive thought as the starting point for my day, even though some areas of my life could be easily perceived as nightmarish...even nervous breakdown material, each moment is a choice in where and how I keep my attention and awareness. The madness and mayhem that can infiltrate our lives, whether we consciously choose it or not, can be an opportunity to grow stronger or weaker in character, yet it requires that we be willing to look at things in a good and positive way...that we remember that all things are in a constant state of change and are temporary at best...unless we decide to focus on the worst instead. As long as you have an idea about where it is you are heading in life, are taking daily actions to get there, all the gobbledygook will pass like bad waves on a stormy sea...I know because I’ve been through some pretty bad storms as a child, as a teen and as an adult.
Just like the weather changes we experience outside, good and bad are going to come into our lives and we can be strengthened by those through a good attitude or blown away every time something changes...I admit it is easier to say this in the western world than it is if I lived in a war torn country, or if I lived in a famine region or under the ignorance and brutality of any dictatorship...yes we have it easier here and while we do...let’s learn to be our best and then reach out to those other places with what we have learned and create a better planet, which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Do this activity for at least two minutes; Pick one area of your life where you are presently having difficulty...maybe its money, maybe it’s a relationship issue, maybe it’s the work your doing or not doing that is a source of discomfort or outright pain...it could even be an emotional turmoil in your mind...pick only one for now. Now visualize, sense or feel that area of your life as best as you can at this moment. Now take three slow, deep breaths and as you exhale notice how the tension in your body automatically relaxes...and notice how, to whatever degree, your feelings around what it was you had in your mind as your problems begin to change...no matter how small a change you feel...just notice the change in your feelings. Now recall the problem area again and once more, take another three slow deep breath like before and feel the tension leave your body as you exhale and notice again how the feelings around your area of focus changes. Now recall the problem area one more time and hold it in your mind and this time say the following statement directly to it, in a sincere tone of voice;
“I know you are changing, I’m grateful for this...thank you... I know you are changing, I’m grateful for this...thank you... I know you are changing, I’m grateful for this...thank you.” And observe how what you visualize, sense or feel, changes then recall the problem area and once more and repeat the above statement, sincerely, one more time. The goal here is to notice the quality of the changes in both your mind, your body and in your feelings, as these give you direct evidence that change is occurring within you, which then begins to show up around you in your environment and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The true measure of a human soul can also come through during the times when things are their most difficult. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Western civilization stands not because of its military or economic might, as some would have you believe, but because of the creative tenacity of its people...which is still a little unfettered by greed, control and power. However if it is fully enslaved to taxation and bad governing principles...it is only through this impediment of spontaneous creativity (or massive geophysical changes) that western society...and the global economy will fall again.
The bathroom sinks aren’t hooked up, the kitchen sink can only be used in a limited way, floors are being partly refinished, all food has to be prepared in a one foot by one foot space on the kitchen table...all the proper places for things has changed repeatedly...the stove in unplugged and as we finish one job everything moves to another cluttered space. We chose to work with materials that require up to seventy two hours to dry, cure and otherwise be ready for normal use again. It’s a renovation which includes sanding, cutting, painting, sealing, washing, washing and more washing, Vacuuming and vacuuming, sweeping and sweeping...sleeping on the couch...sleeping in the bedroom...back on the couch...trying to remember where the keys got moved to...oh and where did I put my USB phone charger? (again) and dear...”where did the clean laundry get put?” I have remember the stories my sister told me, my wonderful sister Michelle who fully renovated everyone of the six homes she’s owned and lived in, yep the stories of rocky turmoil...and I decided after the stories from her fourth home, that it would be different for me...and I can assure you it is.
Like choosing a positive thought as the starting point for my day, even though some areas of my life could be easily perceived as nightmarish...even nervous breakdown material, each moment is a choice in where and how I keep my attention and awareness. The madness and mayhem that can infiltrate our lives, whether we consciously choose it or not, can be an opportunity to grow stronger or weaker in character, yet it requires that we be willing to look at things in a good and positive way...that we remember that all things are in a constant state of change and are temporary at best...unless we decide to focus on the worst instead. As long as you have an idea about where it is you are heading in life, are taking daily actions to get there, all the gobbledygook will pass like bad waves on a stormy sea...I know because I’ve been through some pretty bad storms as a child, as a teen and as an adult.
Just like the weather changes we experience outside, good and bad are going to come into our lives and we can be strengthened by those through a good attitude or blown away every time something changes...I admit it is easier to say this in the western world than it is if I lived in a war torn country, or if I lived in a famine region or under the ignorance and brutality of any dictatorship...yes we have it easier here and while we do...let’s learn to be our best and then reach out to those other places with what we have learned and create a better planet, which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Do this activity for at least two minutes; Pick one area of your life where you are presently having difficulty...maybe its money, maybe it’s a relationship issue, maybe it’s the work your doing or not doing that is a source of discomfort or outright pain...it could even be an emotional turmoil in your mind...pick only one for now. Now visualize, sense or feel that area of your life as best as you can at this moment. Now take three slow, deep breaths and as you exhale notice how the tension in your body automatically relaxes...and notice how, to whatever degree, your feelings around what it was you had in your mind as your problems begin to change...no matter how small a change you feel...just notice the change in your feelings. Now recall the problem area again and once more, take another three slow deep breath like before and feel the tension leave your body as you exhale and notice again how the feelings around your area of focus changes. Now recall the problem area one more time and hold it in your mind and this time say the following statement directly to it, in a sincere tone of voice;
“I know you are changing, I’m grateful for this...thank you... I know you are changing, I’m grateful for this...thank you... I know you are changing, I’m grateful for this...thank you.” And observe how what you visualize, sense or feel, changes then recall the problem area and once more and repeat the above statement, sincerely, one more time. The goal here is to notice the quality of the changes in both your mind, your body and in your feelings, as these give you direct evidence that change is occurring within you, which then begins to show up around you in your environment and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, February 8, 2010
You have what it takes!
William Michael Forbes
All the weight of your past, all of your concerns for the future, is governed by the power of this moment. wmf
A Well Known Fact:;
Your mind and all the thoughts and memory it contains are not who “YOU” are...they are the experiences you’ve had and one of the resources you need to create your life.
The mind works very simply, it is not as complex as we have been told it is...This morning I indulged in a single negative thought and watched as a plethora of images, thoughts and the emotions were spontaneously generated by them and emerged into my conscious awareness. For nearly an hour I watched as the automatic maelstrom grew in intensity from that one single thought. As I continued to allow the thoughts to trigger other thoughts like them, I watched as my body posture changed and modified to match the thoughts and emotions...felt the waves of negative emotions increase inside my head...felt tears eventually emerge into my eyes, all the while not judging what I observed...just watching what automatically unfolded. I watched as I felt the emotions generating behaviour which would incline me to want to call this person or that person...I perceived many of the impulses of a negative nature and then, at the end of an hour, I turned my focus back to ideas of love, success, joy and happiness...in under 8 minutes, the waves of negative emotions and their related thoughts smoothed out into a familiar state of peace.
I have learned to consciously shift my awareness from one state to another and truth be told, everybody shifts or has their awareness shifted all the time, yet many of us do it unconsciously and automatically and can therefore can spend hours or even days in negative and positive emotional states that are based in randomly generated mind-stuff, triggered by environmental events and triggers. Such is not the case for the individual who can discern their awareness from the content of the thoughts and emotions within their mind. Such an individual, who can direct the activities of their own thoughts, is deliberately generating intentional emotional states that support the type of actions necessary to produce the results that help to create a lifestyle and experiences that are supportive of a good life...which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. This will take approximately five minutes an hour.
Take a minute to watch the thoughts that are currently going through your mind and write them down. Whatever thoughts are in your mind write them down...positive and negative...get as many of them as you can down on paper. At the end of the minute of writing, count out the number of negative thoughts versus positive thoughts...whatever they might be. And identify if there are more positive than negative or vice versa. Now look first at the negative thoughts and notice what emotions those thoughts cause, then look at the positive thoughts and notice the emotions they cause inside of you. And though this may seem like a silly question...which feels better to you, which feels normal to you? Which ones make you feel most comfortable? The positive or the negative emotions?
Now spend one more minute focusing only on the positive thoughts and be very aware of what begins to grow in your mind. For this minute keep your total focus on the positive thoughts and the feelings and how they grow...remember that it is your attention which is the source for change in your mind, emotions and in your world....you have what it takes to make the changes you want. Try this activity once each hour and...
Have a great day
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
All the weight of your past, all of your concerns for the future, is governed by the power of this moment. wmf
A Well Known Fact:;
Your mind and all the thoughts and memory it contains are not who “YOU” are...they are the experiences you’ve had and one of the resources you need to create your life.
The mind works very simply, it is not as complex as we have been told it is...This morning I indulged in a single negative thought and watched as a plethora of images, thoughts and the emotions were spontaneously generated by them and emerged into my conscious awareness. For nearly an hour I watched as the automatic maelstrom grew in intensity from that one single thought. As I continued to allow the thoughts to trigger other thoughts like them, I watched as my body posture changed and modified to match the thoughts and emotions...felt the waves of negative emotions increase inside my head...felt tears eventually emerge into my eyes, all the while not judging what I observed...just watching what automatically unfolded. I watched as I felt the emotions generating behaviour which would incline me to want to call this person or that person...I perceived many of the impulses of a negative nature and then, at the end of an hour, I turned my focus back to ideas of love, success, joy and happiness...in under 8 minutes, the waves of negative emotions and their related thoughts smoothed out into a familiar state of peace.
I have learned to consciously shift my awareness from one state to another and truth be told, everybody shifts or has their awareness shifted all the time, yet many of us do it unconsciously and automatically and can therefore can spend hours or even days in negative and positive emotional states that are based in randomly generated mind-stuff, triggered by environmental events and triggers. Such is not the case for the individual who can discern their awareness from the content of the thoughts and emotions within their mind. Such an individual, who can direct the activities of their own thoughts, is deliberately generating intentional emotional states that support the type of actions necessary to produce the results that help to create a lifestyle and experiences that are supportive of a good life...which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. This will take approximately five minutes an hour.
Take a minute to watch the thoughts that are currently going through your mind and write them down. Whatever thoughts are in your mind write them down...positive and negative...get as many of them as you can down on paper. At the end of the minute of writing, count out the number of negative thoughts versus positive thoughts...whatever they might be. And identify if there are more positive than negative or vice versa. Now look first at the negative thoughts and notice what emotions those thoughts cause, then look at the positive thoughts and notice the emotions they cause inside of you. And though this may seem like a silly question...which feels better to you, which feels normal to you? Which ones make you feel most comfortable? The positive or the negative emotions?
Now spend one more minute focusing only on the positive thoughts and be very aware of what begins to grow in your mind. For this minute keep your total focus on the positive thoughts and the feelings and how they grow...remember that it is your attention which is the source for change in your mind, emotions and in your world....you have what it takes to make the changes you want. Try this activity once each hour and...
Have a great day
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Do onto yourself as you do onto others.
William Michael Forbes
Our personality...who we think we are, is a fraction of ourselves constricted by our environmental conditioning or liberated by the greater you that knows you are whatever you think.wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Since the beginning of bio-feedback research in the sixties, western psychology has known that our thoughts affect our form and forty years later it is finally becoming a staple in the healing arts...
I sit here with my coffee in my hand watching the still waters of Lake Ontario to my left and to my right a thick vein of cars moving eastward, along the QEW highway, into Toronto. I can feel the contrasts between nature on one side and the harried human activity on the other...each its own level of consciousness...each functioning with the same animating life-principle, yet expressing it very differently. Nature is governed exclusively by instinct, an awareness that spontaneously knows what to do in most circumstances in order to survive and continue...with our humanity we have a dichotomy to deal with of both instinct –which is built into our physicality- and reason –the capacity to choose over and above the natural survival impulses of our bodies survival imperative.
Instinct keeps our attention almost exclusively outside of the body, whereas reason enables our awareness to be focused inwardly where thought, emotion, feeling and abstract perception occurs.Through reason we can alter our experience and perception of time and space...and yet the question arises...who is directing our reasoning faculty? The obvious answer is... I AM. We use those two words, I am, a lot...but who is this I am that you are? How are we able to step out of our thoughts and emotions? This is a question that seers, saints, sages and mystics have thought to articulate to themselves and others for eons and the answer is actually very simple; We are awareness, the unbroken consciousness that unites all things as one and yet is able to also articulate itself as the individuals that we perceive ourselves to be...a resolvable paradox of perception that is as simple as a light switch being flicked rapidly on and off. We experience both the cause and the effect of how we are and how we are not...which brings us to today’s activity for How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, which will require up to two minutes of your time per hour to complete.
Whatever you are doing at this moment, if it is safe to do so, notice what is going on around you...notice things, people, activities and name them in your mind i.e. I’m noticing the phone ringing, I’m aware of the cars around me, I’m looking at that person over there, I’m aware of footsteps...just notice what is going on for about thirty seconds...then notice your thoughts about what you are noticing for another thirty seconds...then take three slow deep breaths and let your mind become quiet as you notice your body exhaling and as your mind gets quieter with each exhale...just gently think the following words into your mind for about thirty seconds “Thank you, I am. Thank you, I am, Thank you, I am.” Now look around again at what you were noticing before and recognize the difference in how you feel noticing those events, circumstances or people again...then repeat the process at least one more time once again notice the difference and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved
Our personality...who we think we are, is a fraction of ourselves constricted by our environmental conditioning or liberated by the greater you that knows you are whatever you think.wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Since the beginning of bio-feedback research in the sixties, western psychology has known that our thoughts affect our form and forty years later it is finally becoming a staple in the healing arts...
I sit here with my coffee in my hand watching the still waters of Lake Ontario to my left and to my right a thick vein of cars moving eastward, along the QEW highway, into Toronto. I can feel the contrasts between nature on one side and the harried human activity on the other...each its own level of consciousness...each functioning with the same animating life-principle, yet expressing it very differently. Nature is governed exclusively by instinct, an awareness that spontaneously knows what to do in most circumstances in order to survive and continue...with our humanity we have a dichotomy to deal with of both instinct –which is built into our physicality- and reason –the capacity to choose over and above the natural survival impulses of our bodies survival imperative.
Instinct keeps our attention almost exclusively outside of the body, whereas reason enables our awareness to be focused inwardly where thought, emotion, feeling and abstract perception occurs.Through reason we can alter our experience and perception of time and space...and yet the question arises...who is directing our reasoning faculty? The obvious answer is... I AM. We use those two words, I am, a lot...but who is this I am that you are? How are we able to step out of our thoughts and emotions? This is a question that seers, saints, sages and mystics have thought to articulate to themselves and others for eons and the answer is actually very simple; We are awareness, the unbroken consciousness that unites all things as one and yet is able to also articulate itself as the individuals that we perceive ourselves to be...a resolvable paradox of perception that is as simple as a light switch being flicked rapidly on and off. We experience both the cause and the effect of how we are and how we are not...which brings us to today’s activity for How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, which will require up to two minutes of your time per hour to complete.
Whatever you are doing at this moment, if it is safe to do so, notice what is going on around you...notice things, people, activities and name them in your mind i.e. I’m noticing the phone ringing, I’m aware of the cars around me, I’m looking at that person over there, I’m aware of footsteps...just notice what is going on for about thirty seconds...then notice your thoughts about what you are noticing for another thirty seconds...then take three slow deep breaths and let your mind become quiet as you notice your body exhaling and as your mind gets quieter with each exhale...just gently think the following words into your mind for about thirty seconds “Thank you, I am. Thank you, I am, Thank you, I am.” Now look around again at what you were noticing before and recognize the difference in how you feel noticing those events, circumstances or people again...then repeat the process at least one more time once again notice the difference and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved
Thursday, February 4, 2010
True is true...and so are you.
William Michael Forbes
What we deem to be true in our minds is ultimately true in our world...even if its not. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
From the horrors of the battlefield, to the secret torture chambers of the ignorant ...from the lips of the enlightened, to the love of God for all, we are free to create anything!
It might seem strange to you that I would start today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less with War and torture and its opposites Enlightenment and Love...yet there is a very excellent reason for doing so. It is through the opposites of our lives that we learn to grown and change; Through the pain of not having, we have yearned for better things and thus changed our way of doing things; Through the fear of loss we have learned to cherish what we have...and today, after learning through the opposites for many, many eons, humanity is on the verge of learning not through the opposites anymore but through the knowledge and application of love. The opposites were useful...that perpetual pendulum of pleasure and pain that so often wagged humankind back and forth from one state to another until the dawn of free will some forty-two thousand years ago, when we began to learn the power of choice as the primary mechanism to create our experiences from.
As humanity gained knowledge and experience through the use of free will it was still predominately learning through pleasure and pain, having and not having and now that we have global communication all of us can see the madness and horror perpetuated by learning through the opposites...and I think we are ready to learn through love. Love doesn’t mean we do not have boundaries, in fact love flourishes with boundaries, order and structure, which are recognized in any creation that inspires our hearts to go WOW! An awesome piece of architecture, a master painting, literature, family systems, a job we love, friendships, organizations and groups that contribute to our lives. In order for humanity to continue growing it must release the old models of learning and embrace Love as the primary motive behind all words, thoughts deeds and actions. As to who and what determines Loves expression? ...consider this axiom as the basis for growing and knowing what love is;
“The purpose of life is to obtain maximum pleasure without hurting anyone else or ourselves.” Wmf
If all our activities were put through this filter, the opposites of pain and pleasure, as humanities’ primary learning tool, would quickly become obsolete...which brings us to today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. As you go about your day, for at least a minute every hour (more if you want to) ask yourself if what you are doing, thinking and saying, is good for you and others. Continue doing what you are for that minute and just see how much of what you are doing is good for you and others. The point here is to begin moving yourself to a place in consciousness where mindfulness includes the well being of all that is around you...a necessary skill to have in order to cultivate love as the dominate expression in your life and....
Have a great day!
William
What we deem to be true in our minds is ultimately true in our world...even if its not. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
From the horrors of the battlefield, to the secret torture chambers of the ignorant ...from the lips of the enlightened, to the love of God for all, we are free to create anything!
It might seem strange to you that I would start today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less with War and torture and its opposites Enlightenment and Love...yet there is a very excellent reason for doing so. It is through the opposites of our lives that we learn to grown and change; Through the pain of not having, we have yearned for better things and thus changed our way of doing things; Through the fear of loss we have learned to cherish what we have...and today, after learning through the opposites for many, many eons, humanity is on the verge of learning not through the opposites anymore but through the knowledge and application of love. The opposites were useful...that perpetual pendulum of pleasure and pain that so often wagged humankind back and forth from one state to another until the dawn of free will some forty-two thousand years ago, when we began to learn the power of choice as the primary mechanism to create our experiences from.
As humanity gained knowledge and experience through the use of free will it was still predominately learning through pleasure and pain, having and not having and now that we have global communication all of us can see the madness and horror perpetuated by learning through the opposites...and I think we are ready to learn through love. Love doesn’t mean we do not have boundaries, in fact love flourishes with boundaries, order and structure, which are recognized in any creation that inspires our hearts to go WOW! An awesome piece of architecture, a master painting, literature, family systems, a job we love, friendships, organizations and groups that contribute to our lives. In order for humanity to continue growing it must release the old models of learning and embrace Love as the primary motive behind all words, thoughts deeds and actions. As to who and what determines Loves expression? ...consider this axiom as the basis for growing and knowing what love is;
“The purpose of life is to obtain maximum pleasure without hurting anyone else or ourselves.” Wmf
If all our activities were put through this filter, the opposites of pain and pleasure, as humanities’ primary learning tool, would quickly become obsolete...which brings us to today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. As you go about your day, for at least a minute every hour (more if you want to) ask yourself if what you are doing, thinking and saying, is good for you and others. Continue doing what you are for that minute and just see how much of what you are doing is good for you and others. The point here is to begin moving yourself to a place in consciousness where mindfulness includes the well being of all that is around you...a necessary skill to have in order to cultivate love as the dominate expression in your life and....
Have a great day!
William
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Today is never again
William Michael Forbes
Pssssst...Yes, you! Did you know that in reality each day only comes once? wmf
A Well Known Fact:
While it is true that they can clone a body, it is also true that they cannot recreate the personality of the individual...that is the magic of change...the magic of every moment!
As a child I remember the fascination I had with the sun rising...the oranges and gold that peaked over the city’s horizon shortening the shadows of the night before. Even on grey cloudy days...there was something about the newness...that just made me feel like a car with its accelerator and break pressed at the same time...I could hardly wait to release the brake and get into the day. That process ended at around age nine and I spent the rest of my childhood, all of my adolescence and the earlier years of my adulthood dreading each and every day....in fact I could hardly wait until I was tired enough to fall asleep.
Around age twenty-two, I was studying Gestalt Therapy and through the experiments in self actualization I began to reawaken the child part of me that loved every moment of its being. Since then, more than twenty-five years later, I still love opening my eyes to the mornings and keeping myself conscious throughout the day...I try to appreciate everything that I can , the good, the bad, the happy, the sad as they are all part of the preciousness of being in a material body. I have been asked many times how I keep my energy up...what it is it I do to be so buoyant through the day...and while I am not upbeat every single moment...I think I’ve got it to about eighty-percent of the time (and rising!) which brings us to today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less activity.
The moments that are passing as you read this can never, ever be repeated. Each and every molecule of physical reality is an ever changing alphabet soup of matter, energy and consciousness...and all of us are part of this soup...each of us a unique cosmic flavour adding our own little spice to life. Yesterday I suggested that you appreciate yourself for one minute every hour, today it’s about appreciating today and everything else around you for at least one minute every hour. From the moment you opened your eyes, to the clothes you put on, to the shower you have...the food you eat, the coffee you drink, the people you see, the birds you hear, the clouds and sky you see....think appreciative thoughts for all of it for at least one minute every hour and if you find your mind drifting into those old familiar grooves of familiar mundane insanity...do this activity. Heck try this everyday for a week and you’ll be amazed...at how much good their already is in your life and...
Have a great day!
William
Pssssst...Yes, you! Did you know that in reality each day only comes once? wmf
A Well Known Fact:
While it is true that they can clone a body, it is also true that they cannot recreate the personality of the individual...that is the magic of change...the magic of every moment!
As a child I remember the fascination I had with the sun rising...the oranges and gold that peaked over the city’s horizon shortening the shadows of the night before. Even on grey cloudy days...there was something about the newness...that just made me feel like a car with its accelerator and break pressed at the same time...I could hardly wait to release the brake and get into the day. That process ended at around age nine and I spent the rest of my childhood, all of my adolescence and the earlier years of my adulthood dreading each and every day....in fact I could hardly wait until I was tired enough to fall asleep.
Around age twenty-two, I was studying Gestalt Therapy and through the experiments in self actualization I began to reawaken the child part of me that loved every moment of its being. Since then, more than twenty-five years later, I still love opening my eyes to the mornings and keeping myself conscious throughout the day...I try to appreciate everything that I can , the good, the bad, the happy, the sad as they are all part of the preciousness of being in a material body. I have been asked many times how I keep my energy up...what it is it I do to be so buoyant through the day...and while I am not upbeat every single moment...I think I’ve got it to about eighty-percent of the time (and rising!) which brings us to today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less activity.
The moments that are passing as you read this can never, ever be repeated. Each and every molecule of physical reality is an ever changing alphabet soup of matter, energy and consciousness...and all of us are part of this soup...each of us a unique cosmic flavour adding our own little spice to life. Yesterday I suggested that you appreciate yourself for one minute every hour, today it’s about appreciating today and everything else around you for at least one minute every hour. From the moment you opened your eyes, to the clothes you put on, to the shower you have...the food you eat, the coffee you drink, the people you see, the birds you hear, the clouds and sky you see....think appreciative thoughts for all of it for at least one minute every hour and if you find your mind drifting into those old familiar grooves of familiar mundane insanity...do this activity. Heck try this everyday for a week and you’ll be amazed...at how much good their already is in your life and...
Have a great day!
William
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Appreciate yourself...
William Michael Forbes
And leaning close to the mirror I said; “There isn’t anyone else thats gotta live in here.” wmf
A Well Known Fact:
What we think about others affects us first as it has to go through our nervous system first before the vibrations leave our body as words, feelings and actions.
I meditated just before going to bed last night and once I reached that quiet place inside, the traffic, the vacuuming, the discussion about college were gentle background noises that actually deepened the calm stillness. After around twenty minutes, which seems to be an optimal time for my mind, body and Soul, I opened my eyes, finished a few chores and snuggled off to bed. The sleep I had was deep and calm and I awakened with only the slightest mists of dreams in the background of my mind. My first words this morning...”Thank you, thank you, thank you.” to all that is...ushered a gentle wash of excitement over my mind and body.
In the bathroom, before I reached the shower, I looked closely into my eyes...something I remember doing often as a child and looked into my eyes hoping to glimpse the source that animates my body for me and as I looked I felt a tingle of joy in the middle of my head which seemed to say to me “I am glad you are you.” I felt the tingle spread to my mouth as a smile and hopped into the shower with an oddly sung rendition of Olivia Newton Johns, Let Me Be There....a song which reflects for me the relationship that each of can potentially have with the infinite, loving the source within us...which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
What do you do in the morning or during the day to recognize and appreciate yourself? What thoughts, ideas, words and actions do you do where you actively and consciously appreciate yourself? Do you appreciate the way you dress yourself? Take care of your body? How you rise up to meet and greet another day? Today spend at least a minute every hour allowing yourself to be conscious and appreciative of what you are doing...no matter what it is...remind yourself that the good you are doing is for your life and the lives of others and allow yourself to feel the effects of that minute of appreciation...feel it in your body...and in the molecules of your mind...let your thought be only about appreciation for that minute each hour and...
Have a great day!
William
And leaning close to the mirror I said; “There isn’t anyone else thats gotta live in here.” wmf
A Well Known Fact:
What we think about others affects us first as it has to go through our nervous system first before the vibrations leave our body as words, feelings and actions.
I meditated just before going to bed last night and once I reached that quiet place inside, the traffic, the vacuuming, the discussion about college were gentle background noises that actually deepened the calm stillness. After around twenty minutes, which seems to be an optimal time for my mind, body and Soul, I opened my eyes, finished a few chores and snuggled off to bed. The sleep I had was deep and calm and I awakened with only the slightest mists of dreams in the background of my mind. My first words this morning...”Thank you, thank you, thank you.” to all that is...ushered a gentle wash of excitement over my mind and body.
In the bathroom, before I reached the shower, I looked closely into my eyes...something I remember doing often as a child and looked into my eyes hoping to glimpse the source that animates my body for me and as I looked I felt a tingle of joy in the middle of my head which seemed to say to me “I am glad you are you.” I felt the tingle spread to my mouth as a smile and hopped into the shower with an oddly sung rendition of Olivia Newton Johns, Let Me Be There....a song which reflects for me the relationship that each of can potentially have with the infinite, loving the source within us...which brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
What do you do in the morning or during the day to recognize and appreciate yourself? What thoughts, ideas, words and actions do you do where you actively and consciously appreciate yourself? Do you appreciate the way you dress yourself? Take care of your body? How you rise up to meet and greet another day? Today spend at least a minute every hour allowing yourself to be conscious and appreciative of what you are doing...no matter what it is...remind yourself that the good you are doing is for your life and the lives of others and allow yourself to feel the effects of that minute of appreciation...feel it in your body...and in the molecules of your mind...let your thought be only about appreciation for that minute each hour and...
Have a great day!
William
Monday, February 1, 2010
You can do it!
William Michael Forbes
It is when we look outside ourselves for what we need most to find within ourselves that our self esteem can be governed by the opinions and beliefs of others. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
An imagined idea can be as lethal and as healing as the idea is.
I set the alarm clock an hour later than I was supposed to and my partner and I slept in an hour later. We were immediately faced with the interesting task of accomplishing in less than half an hour what normally takes us ninety minutes to accomplish. My first thought naturally was…we can do this…it will work out perfectly…and my partner without missing a beat looked at me with her penetrating hazel eyes and asked me to do something extra for her that I would normally wouldn’t do as part of our morning routine….my immediate response…even though I wasn’t sure was “Okay darlin…my pleasure.”
Ten years ago my ego would have been running around in my brain going …”We’re late…my god…hurry up get moving OMG!” And in spite of the automatic response to the realization we were late…I flew into action preparing fruit salads, lunches and a coffee to go all in under half an hour…and I felt like a miracle person! Which brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. During today anytime you have a feeling or thought that implies; How can I do this…there’s not enough time or I can’t do this or that…say to yourself in either an internal or external, authoritative voice… ”I CAN DO THIS AND HAVE FUN!” then go about whatever the task is, all the while if your mind or emotions swing towards the negative…repeat the authoritative phrase “I CAN DO THIS AND HAVE FUN!” Make sure too, that your body is postured in a strong upright position…and have fun!!
Have a great day!
William
It is when we look outside ourselves for what we need most to find within ourselves that our self esteem can be governed by the opinions and beliefs of others. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
An imagined idea can be as lethal and as healing as the idea is.
I set the alarm clock an hour later than I was supposed to and my partner and I slept in an hour later. We were immediately faced with the interesting task of accomplishing in less than half an hour what normally takes us ninety minutes to accomplish. My first thought naturally was…we can do this…it will work out perfectly…and my partner without missing a beat looked at me with her penetrating hazel eyes and asked me to do something extra for her that I would normally wouldn’t do as part of our morning routine….my immediate response…even though I wasn’t sure was “Okay darlin…my pleasure.”
Ten years ago my ego would have been running around in my brain going …”We’re late…my god…hurry up get moving OMG!” And in spite of the automatic response to the realization we were late…I flew into action preparing fruit salads, lunches and a coffee to go all in under half an hour…and I felt like a miracle person! Which brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. During today anytime you have a feeling or thought that implies; How can I do this…there’s not enough time or I can’t do this or that…say to yourself in either an internal or external, authoritative voice… ”I CAN DO THIS AND HAVE FUN!” then go about whatever the task is, all the while if your mind or emotions swing towards the negative…repeat the authoritative phrase “I CAN DO THIS AND HAVE FUN!” Make sure too, that your body is postured in a strong upright position…and have fun!!
Have a great day!
William
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